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organised by:

Hellenic Foundation
for Culture, UK

in association with

British Committee
for the Restitution of
the Parthenon Marbles

Marbles Reunited
(watch the video)

Athens 2004

Note: Below is a selection of our past events.

2008

9 March Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales

12 March - 12 April Exhibition of Icons by the Panhellenic Society of Iconographers and Dimitris Kolioussis


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2006

17 - 22 November Swallow Song

14, 17, 21 October Amanda Mihalopoulou DECAPOLIS: Tales from Ten Cities

13 October - 16 November Greek Embroidery from the 16^th to the 17^th century

21 August - 21 September Icons from the Velimezis Collection

20 May 2006 Eurovision Song Contest

9 May Antelopes by Andreas Flourakis

8 April Stamatis Spanoudakis in concert

13 March Projects: Earth, Desert, River a presentation by Danae Stratou

6 March The Parthenon in Poetry

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2004

12 December Athena Live!

29 November - 17 December STONES and COLOURS

17 November Foreign Bodies: Contemporary Writing in Translation

12, 14 November Constantine Giannaris

11 November Celebrating Nikos Skalkottas

21 September The Late-night News - A Presentation

20 September Translating Contemporary Crime Fiction

25 August The Olympic Games in Motion

17 July - 29 August A Journey through Books

16 August Greece, Athens & the Olympic Games

24 July Petros Markaris

29 June - 16 July Periplus

"Greece in Britain" Book Real Greek at Home

26 June Olympic Torch Relay

12 June - 7 September Iphigenia at Aulis

8 - 27 June Roast Beef

27 May, 2 & 17 June Voices from Greece

26 May - 1 June & 10 - 19 June INSTALLATION 496

20 May Trends in Contemporary Greek Fiction

11 - 17 May The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

10 May - 12 June The Greek Experience

5 - 15 May The Oxford Greek Festival

30 April - 6 June Greece on Screen, 2004

17 April Architecture and Archaeology in the Cyclades

16 - 21 April Gregory Markopoulos Myth, Portraiture and Films of Place

9 April The Praises of the Epitaph An Easter concert by Dimitra Trypani

25 - 28 March A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades

23 - 28 March Oxford Literary Festival

8 - 14 March CineMYTHOlogy

21 February - 22 May A Greek Odyssey

16 February - 1 April Byzantine Festival in London

11 February - 23 May El Greco

9 February - 12 March London Festival of Greek Drama

18 - 27 February Works on Paper by Elli Solomonidou Balanou

29 January - 3 April Actors of Dionysus on tour Hippolytus - Trojan Women

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2002

6 November Dimitri Vassilakis, Daedalus Project-Labyrinth

29 September - 3 November Jules Dassin, an Honorary Greek

8 - 21 June Medfest 2002, Music, Film, Puppet Theatre, and more Music

2 June - 11 August A Tribute to Frieda Liappa and Tonia Marketaki

20 May - 7 June Platforms: Bacchai and beyond

20 - 21 April The Greek Theatre Mask in ancient and modern performance

3 - 17 March Contemporary Greek Cinema

1 - 7 March Contemporary Greek Cinema

30 January - 2 February Medea the Oxford Greek Play 2002

28 January Ilias Andriopoulos The Greek Trilogy

5 - 6 January Conference From Local History to the Global Individual: Changing Themes in Greek Fiction 1974 - 2000

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2000

19 December A Screening of the 1926 film Faust music by Yorgos Mouloudakis and Studio 19

6 November Nana Mouskouri, in concert including a 50 piece choir

1 October Ikons of Light. The Inspirations of John Tavener

21 - 23 August Greece at the Dome, Music, Shadow Theatre, and more Music

19 June Songs of the Mediteranean, Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico

4 June - 2 July Pantelis Voulgaris, A Retrospective

15 May George Seferis, Maria Farandouri

6 May Thanos Mikroutsikos and Friends

10 - 12 March New Greek Cinema

12 Febraury - 12 March Symbols / Objects, Stories and Facts Untold

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1998

January - June Music, Theatre Dance, Film, Exhibtions, Lectures, Conferences

15 June Orchestra of Colours

8 - 14 June Greek Cinema

2, 4 June Voices from Greece

22 May - 21 June Conversation with God

19 May La Camerata

12 - 14 March Medea

21 January The Music of Byzantium

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2007

24 September Ersi Sotiropoulou

10 May Katerina Anghelaki - Rooke

6 - 7 March Superlux, Apostolia Papadaki/Quasi Stellar

27 February Helen of Troy, Bettany Hughes

10 January - 4 February takis


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2005

22 September - 6 October Alecos Fassianos: Works on Paper

26 September I'm a man: I'm a god A lecture by Ruth Padel

9 April - 16 May The Weeping Meadow Photographs by Dimitris Sofikitis

2 - 6 April The Weeping Meadow Photographs by Dimitris Sofikitis

2 - 4 April XXXIX Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

21 March Petros Markaris & David Connolly

19 March - 16 April & 23 April Miltos Manetas

2 February - 6 March The Weeping Meadow Photographs by Dimitris Sofikitis

27, 28 February Theo Angelopoulos Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow

27 February Mediterranean Traditions

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2003

03 December 03 - 31 January 04 Theo Angelopoulos A Retrospective in Tour

5 - 7 December A weekend of Arc poets and translators

22 November New Perspectives on Cavafy

17 November 'Z' & Costas Gavras in conversation

8 November - 28 December Theo Angelopoulos: A Retrospective

15 October - 12 December Photographs of the Athenian Acropolis The Restoration Project, 1975 - 2002

21, 22 September Translation Days, Subverting the National: The Role of Translation

6, 16, 21 August Alexis Stamatis

26 July Mode Plagal & Krotala

26 - 28 June Jason, the Quest for the Golden Fleece

16 June Paths from the Labyrinth

9 June Greek Stars at the Opera

6, 8 June Mode Plagal - The Club Series 2003

30 April - 26 May 7 Greek Printmakers

22 April - 24 May Athens-scape

10 - 12 April Míkro - The Club Series 2003

4 April Greek Icons of Light and Passion

19 April - 29 May Greece on Screen

2 - 19 April The Actors of Dionysus

14 - 16 March, 4 - 6 April Greek Literature on Film

22 March K-Beta, The Club Series 2003

5 February - 26 March Sixteenth London Festival of Greek Drama

5 - 28 February Fassianos works on paper

13 January Savina Yannatou & Friends

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2001

16, 24 January, 2, 27 February, 1 March Greek Playreadings at the National Theatres

31 January - 3 February Notos Theatre Company, Athens in Much Ado About Nothing

9 - 11 February Contemporary Greeek Cinema

10 May - 2 June part of Tantalus: A festival

15 May Nina Venetsanou, and Friends

31 May - 4 June Edafos, Dance Theatre Greece in The Human Thirst

3 - 24 June Nikos Panayotopoulos, A Retrospective

25 June Hydraulis An ancient Greek Organ for new Millenium

17 - 30 October John Donat, The Real Crete Photographs from 1960

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1999

30 November Louis de Bernierès and Friends

22 October The New Hellenic Quartet, Homage to Nikos Skalkotas

24 September Eleftheria Kotzia, In the Spirit of Apollo

17 May George Dalaras & The Ossipov Balalaika Orchestra

9 May - 6 June Michael Cacoyannis: A Retrospective, 1954 - 1999

2 - 3 February Eleni Karaindrou, Eternity and a Day

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